Bour'don noun [ French, from Latin burdo mule, esp. one used for carrying litters. Confer Spanish muleta a young she mule; also, crutch, prop.] A pilgrim's staff. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/85

Bour'don` noun [ French See Burden a refrain.] (Mus.) (a) A drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy-gurdy. See Burden (of a song.) (b) A kind of organ stop. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/86

[bell] The bourdon is the heaviest of the bells that belong to a musical instrument, especially a chime or a carillon, and produces its lowest tone. As an example, the largest bell of a carillon of 64 bells, the sixth largest bell hanging in the world, in the Southern Illinois town of Centralia, is identified as the `bourdon.` It weighs 11,...Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourdon_(bell)

[organ pipe] Bourdon, bordun, or bordone normally denotes a stopped flute/flue type of pipe in an organ characterized by a very dark, heavy tone, strong in fundamental, with a quint transient but relatively little overtone development. Its half-length construction make it especially well suited to low pitches, and the name is derived from t...Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourdon_(organ_pipe)

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